The purpose of the International Food Information Council (IFIC)
Foundation is "to provide sound, scientific information on food safety and
nutrition to journalists, health professionals, educators,
government officials and consumers." This nonprofit organization is based
in Washington, D.C.

The IFIC offers a wide variety of free
brochures, newsletter and nutrition information resources which can
be utilized by health providers and educators. Single FREE copies of
more than 100 publications are available from them via an online order
form.

Referenced white papers on important topics in nutrition and
food safety can also be ordered via an online order form on their web
site. Topics include:

Caffeine and Health: Clarifying the Controversies

Sweet Facts About Sugars and Health

Sorting Out the Facts About Fat

In addition, you can choose to receive (free) any 4 of 80 listed articles
reprinted from the Food Insight bi-monthly newsletter. They also
offer other
nutrition resources and quantities of their publications for a nominal
fee. For mere pennies, the IFIC even offers "camera-ready" artwork to
make your own economical black and white copies of certain IFIC Foundation
brochures! How's that for helpful and practical? This reflects the
fact that the IFIC is not only service oriented, but that they also have
a commitment to maintaining the high quality of reproduced educational
material which has their name on it.

Do check out the Publications page of the IFIC Foundation web site.
These practical nutrition resources can give
a boost to your health literature rack and update your health information
files, at a cost that even the smallest nurse-directed college health
service can afford! The fact that the information is scientifically
researched gives credibility to the use of these resources in the
college health setting.

Information on the web site states that permission is granted to reprint
text and graphics from IFIC Foundation publications, provided the
following attribution is included: Reprinted from the International Food
Information Council Foundation, (year of publication).

IFIC is to be commended for making nutrition education easier
for health care providers and educators by providing credible resources
without barriers to use and distribution of their materials. Their web
site is a great resource for college health centers on limited budgets!

When you sign the guest book at the IFIC web site, you can tell them
Connections Quarterly sent you!